How to be an Interviewee for an Anchor App Podcast

If you’ve been invited to a podcast that uses the Anchor app to produce the show, you may wonder how it works.  Depending on your level of comfort with today’s apps and podcast solutions, these instructions may be anything from confusing to as simple as drinking water.

Instructions for guest interviews using the Anchor (Podcast) App

The Podcast host will send you an invite from her/his side asking to send you, the interviewee, an invite/link via multiple medium.  S/he will will click “invite friends to join.”

host invite anchor app

There are so many mediums that are available today, Anchor provides multiple ways of reaching out to you, the guest: users who already have the app and are ready to go, text messages, twitter, facebook, and all the other default apps or media that your phone lets you select when clicking on … More.   Continue reading “How to be an Interviewee for an Anchor App Podcast”

Top (potentially bold) 3 Predictions Post Covid-19

On a recent jog, I pondered what might be the “new normal” after the deadly breakout of the corona virus.  I felt several larger trends would emerge.

Given that I’m buried in search data daily, I have insight that many others aren’t regularly monitoring.  A few of them are exhibited here on Google Trends.  (note: this link is not semantically friendly which leads me to believe this may die at some point.  FYI, this link lives currently under the main “google trends” when you visit the homepage).

Examples include these 4 topics which “broke out” in the thousands of percentage points++ on the dates delineated.

4 breakout google searches on 05.13.2020
“3 stage plan to reopen Australia”, “sneeze guards for office”, “twitter jobs” and “return to church guidelines South Africa” are breakout searches on 5.13.2020

Here are my (plausible) prescient thoughts:

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3 Best (& Funniest) Ivy League Commencement Speeches for graduates disappointed by Corona

If you haven’t seen these speeches, you should.  And I would advise you listen to them more than once.  I have.

Not only do these 3 comedians share some of their “best stuff,” but I’d argue #2 gives you her “best stuff” which isn’t necessarily the most humorous.   I was touched by her “real advice” which are words you should truly listen to.

With that said and for all the unfortunate graduates who won’t have the opportunity to listen to a great speaker this year as a result of Covid-19, these are in your honor:

#3: Conan O’ Brien’s Dartmouth College Graduation Address – 2011

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South Korea’s Richest People (as of April 2020)

Top 10 Richest Koreans by Net Worth

Note: The recent stock market volatility has stripped some of the riches of these top10:

At top, the “South Korean business magnate and the chairman of Samsung Group” Lee, Kun-hee is still #1. In Korean, his name is spelled “이건희” and in “Hanja,” he’s 李健熙.

He’s worth a cool $15.4 billion dollars (as of 3/26/20)

#2 Seo Jung-jin – $6.9 billion

Not to get confused with the soccer player, this tycoon is CEO of Celltrion, a biopharmaceutical company which develops drugs to treat cancer, influenza and rheumatoid arthritis, among others. Probably a good time to be in his industry, eh?

#3 is Kim Jung-ju, founder of South Korean online-gaming company Nexon; he is chairman of its holding company NXC. His current net worth is $6.5 bill.

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The latest Corona Velocity (Speed) of Transmission

I’ve been keeping track of the death rate from Corona on a daily basis since March 12th.  Before that, I tried to decry that Covid-19 is MUCH more significant than people would give me credit.

Today, people are clearly aware that it wasn’t just many boys (or girls) who were crying wolf.

Latest update on April 17, 2020, 10:19 GMT.  

Marking today (3/30/2020), we’ll start to profile the:

Deaths in the World Velocity — Increasing or Decreasing — from Corona 

World Deaths Velocity April 17, 2020, 10:19 GMT
  • It’s NOT slowing down; there was a perception it was from over the weekend, but that was false — our theories are that weekend stats are not as accurate
  • Reminder: I’ve found weekends tend to have weaker data.  Moving forward, I’ll try and capture only M-F data.
  • Our latest statistics as of Coronavirus Update shows people were dying at ~291.500/hour on April 17, 2020, 10:19 GMT
  • 04/16/2020 showed people were dying at 337.333/hour/hour
  • 04/15/2020 showed people were dying at 448.375/hour; the WORST rate thus far (they may have rejigged the numbers ~4/16 b/c this was not this bad a few days ago)
  • 04/14/2020 showed people were dying at 224.875/hour/hour
  • 04/12 (~253/hr) & 04/13 (~225/hr) will be omitted.  I’ve found weekends tend to have weaker data.  Moving forward, I’ll try and capture only M-F data.
  • 04/11/2020 showed people were dying at 290.583/hour
  • 04/10/2020 showed people were dying at 301.375/hour
  • 04/09/2020 showed people were dying at 267.250/hour
  • 04/08/2020 showed people were dying at 307.583/hour 
  • 04/07/2020, 04:58 GMT showed people were dying at 217.792/hour
  • 04/06/2020, 04:21 GMT showed people were dying at 197.375/hour
  • 04/05/2020, 05:06 GMT showed people were dying at 241.667/hour
  • 04/4/2020, 04:36 GMT showed people were dying at 249.708/hour
  • 04/3/2020, 04:33 GMT showed people were dying at 248.667/hour throughout the globe vs. 203.458/hr the day before
  • 04/2/2020 at 12:35 AM showed people were dying at ~203.458/hour throughout the globe vs. ~180.625/hr
  • 03/31/2020 11:20 PM showed people were dying ~180.625/hour throughout the globe vs. the day before at 154.541/hour
  • Latest statistics Globally: 937,167 cases worldwide & 47,267 deaths (Last updated: April 02, 2020, 07:27 GMT)

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What do you call someone who doesn’t follow the rules?

non-conformist, rebel and a deviant are what are currently defined as “someone who doesn’t follow the rules.”  (at least according to google’s search results)

Historically, there have been many trendsetters and pioneers that were originally disdained for “sticking out” or disobeying what society or even some small group they may have belonged to.  Today, more than ever, there will be and have been some amazing people who have been brave and literally failed to conform to what society or more conservative types may have deemed appropriate.  Nevertheless, here are some of the nouns that people associate with people who “fail” to follow the rules:

James Dean, the Actor as a Young Man: 'Rebel Without a Cause ...

    • nonconformist – this entry popped up #1 when I searched “person who doesn’t follow the rules”  Vocabulary.com secured the featured snippet space with: “nonconformist. A nonconformist is someone who doesn’t conform to other people’s ideas of how things should be.”

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Corona 2020’s Economic Devastation to the World Economy

March 15, 2020

A week ago, Mark Canlis’s restaurant in Seattle was offering a $135 tasting menu to a bustling dining room every night. Eileen Hornor’s inn on the Maine coast was booking rooms for the busy spring graduation season. And Kalena Masching, a real estate agent in California, was fielding multiple offers on a $1.2 million home.

Then the coronavirus outbreak changed everything.

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161k+ Dead from Corona; the next virus may reset history

Bill Gates predicted today’s unfortunate events 5 years ago

TLDR:

  • The Coronavirus has surpassed over 2.347 MILLION+ cases & 161k+ deaths globally
  • There are estimates that and also in the UK ;  some are even estimating as many as HUNDREDS of Millions to die
  • Corona has landed stateside and it WILL cripple the US (both financially & medically)
  • This is a stark warning about what is to come
  • Like Parasite’s allegorical messaging, “Corona” is not just a “health thing, ” but a larger message about how we should NOT ignore the “signals” & be smart like Bill Gates told us 5 years ago along with MANY others
The world is on (corona) fire

In JUST 105+ days we already have:

 2,347,778 cases & 161,126 deaths globally confirmed*** 

***as of April 19, 2020, 11:18 GMT Source (Worldometer)

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